State of Iowa v. Randall Lee Hurlburt

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF IOWA No. 20–0630 Submitted September 15, 2021—Filed February 11, 2022 STATE OF IOWA, Appellee, vs. RANDALL LEE HURLBUT, Appellant. Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Plymouth County, Jeffrey A. Neary, Judge. The defendant appeals his conviction for a misdemeanor operating-while- intoxicated charge entered after a trial at which the defendant was wholly absent. AFFIRMED. McDermott, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which Christensen, C.J., and Waterman, Mansfield, McDonald, and Oxley, JJ., joined. Appel, J., filed an opinion concurring specially. Martha J.…